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CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM Every year since 1990, the United Nations publishes its Human Development Report. It contains the most authoritative data on the state of the world. These reports are available online: hdr.undp.org/reports/view_reports.cfm?type=1. Based on those reports (referred to by year, followed by page), what does our world look like?...
Posted: Wed, Oct 5, 2005 1:27pm PDT
RN frm SFGH goes to San Antonio for Katrina Relief RN's from SEIU Local 790 (San Francisco General Hospital) go to Kelly Air Force Base in Texas to provide medical disaster relief to Hurrican Katrina evacuees, in an airplane hangar there. This is a nightly "dispatch" from there by Meg Brizzolara, a new denouncer of FEMA and the Red Cross and old enemy combatant....
Posted: Sun, Oct 2, 2005 9:19am PDT
Unions And Supporters Encourage Continuation Of SF Hotel Boycott An Unconventional Anniversary Celebration...
Posted: Sat, Oct 1, 2005 11:16pm PDT
The Cradle Will Rock" at UCB Below is an announcement and a news release about an extraordinary musical
on labor history directed by a UCB Theater Dept lecturer and member of Local
1474, Lura Dolas, The Cradle Will Rock. It will play at Zellerbach in the
second and third weekends in October....
Posted: Sat, Oct 1, 2005 10:02pm PDT
Change to Win holds founding convention ST. LOUIS — Seventy-five percent of Change to Win’s $16 million budget will be earmarked for union organizing, delegates to the labor federation’s founding convention decided here Sept. 27. The affiliating unions are the Service Employees, Teamsters, Carpenters, Laborers, Food and Commercial Workers, Farmworkers, and Unite Here, which takes in hotel, apparel, laundry and casino workers. All but the Laborers and Farmworkers have disaffiliated from the AFL-CIO in recent months....
Posted: Fri, Sep 30, 2005 7:10am PDT
Time Autonomy for Everyone Given the enormous advances in productivity, radical reduction of working hours is an overdue demand. However working hours are actually lengthened.. Power relations are hidden behind the distribution structures....
Posted: Thu, Sep 29, 2005 6:53am PDT
India hit by general strike over economic "reforms" A day-long, national strike in India has disrupted air, rail and banking services across the country.
Left-wing trade unions are protesting at the government's economic reforms. It is the first national strike since the Congress party won power in 2004....
Posted: Thu, Sep 29, 2005 6:43am PDT
Come Protest Arnold in Lafayette- 9/28, 5:30pm! Arnold is coming to Lafayette's Happy Valley neighborhood Wednesday evening (9/28/05) to raise money for his Special Interest Special Election. Our CA Teachers Association friends have invited us to join them in protesting is attacks on our union friends and working families !!!...
Posted: Mon, Sep 26, 2005 5:38pm PDT
Social Strike Town Hall Meeting Social Strike invites you to come organize with us! We are having
A T O W N H A L L M E E T I N G!
3 pm, Sunday, 9/25
3030b 16th Street
(meetings will be held same place and time, every Sunday through the end of October)...
Posted: Sat, Sep 24, 2005 10:53am PDT
There's an explanation for all this “It will be a hard pill for many Americans to swallow--the idea of doing with less so that big business can have more...Nothing that this nation, or any other nation, has done in modern economic history compares with the selling job that must be done to make people except this reality.” (Business Week 10-12-74.)...
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 3:50pm PDT
Striker Diary 2 A individual account from the strike at the 3 CPMC hospitals in the Bay Area...
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 12:42am PDT
United Health Care Workers More than 150 health care employees and labor supporters rallied in front of Sutter California Pacific Medical Center yesterday, demanding the hospital’s owners agree to a mediator’s proposal for resolving a series of disputes between management and workers. Sutter Health Affiliates, which operates three hospitals in San Francisco, refuses to agree to the proposal despite its close similarity to agreements struck with all other major health providers in the city. Now, members of United Health...
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 1:52pm PDT
"A Union Man" Film and Concert 9/24 Berkeley, 9/25 San Francisco A film and concert by and and about NYC labor and anti-war activist Julius Margolin. A Q & A discussion with Julius and director George Mann will follow. They will also perform a selection of labor and anti-war songs with special guest Faith Petric at both performances and sunday night's concert will also feature some of the bay area's best know labor and folksingers....
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 10:55am PDT
No post-Katrina letup in assault on wages US Federal Reserve hikes interest rates...
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 6:32am PDT
KPFA Workers Call for Violence-Free Station, No Harassment We believe that Pacifica should not allow workers and women to be treated by the manager in ways that justifiably outrage progressives when they happen to workers at Mitsubishi or Denny’s. The Pacifica National Board has the power to overturn the Local Station Board’s vote and remove Campanella, but it needs to hear from concerned listeners....
Posted: Wed, Sep 21, 2005 10:05pm PDT
9/23/05 SF Labor TV on Sutter Hospital Strike, KPFA&Labor Media & "Solidarity Has No Borde "Labor On The Job" and labor TV show programmed in San Francisco will focus on the Sutter
SEIU UHW Hospital strike, KPFA and Labor Media as well as a segment from the new
documentary "Solidarity Has No Borders, The Journey Of The Neptune Jade".
It will also contain an interview with SEIU President Andy Stern about the strike and also about
the upcoming Change To Win Convention"...
Posted: Wed, Sep 21, 2005 1:39pm PDT
Bay Area’s Black workers face crisis of low-wage jobs New UC Berkeley study shows 64% of young Black workers work but stay poor...
Posted: Mon, Sep 19, 2005 7:47am PDT
Northwest and Delta executives to make millions from bankruptcies Over the last several years the top corporate executives at Northwest and Delta airlines negotiated retirement packages guaranteeing them millions in the event the companies declared bankruptcy and defaulted on their pension payments to employees. Both companies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last Wednesday, in large measure to escape their pension obligations and seek the bankruptcy court’s backing for sweeping cuts in airline workers’ jobs, wages and benefits....
Posted: Mon, Sep 19, 2005 4:56am PDT
Greens Applaud Senate Passage of Minimum Wage Increase Green Party of California urges quick signature by governor of minimum wage legislation to provide aid for 'working poor'...
Posted: Sat, Sep 17, 2005 4:08pm PDT
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